“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it isn’t true, after all.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w. |
Mackail, John William, ed. [Select epigrams from the Greek anthology.] *75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls, lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work. The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
| + | Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w. |
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w. |
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so delightful a book were many times greater.”